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Requires the President to identify foreign persons who knowingly participated in or helped finance, conceal, or profit from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking enterprise, and to report those names to Congress within 90 days and annually for five years. The President must impose sanctions on named foreign persons—such as blocking U.S.-based assets, visa bans, and inadmissibility—subject to limited waiver, termination, and petition procedures and with protections for victim privacy and classified reporting when needed. Sets definitions for covered terms and evidentiary standards; assigns coordination among State, Treasury, and Justice for preparing the reports; creates waiver, exceptions, and termination rules (including reporting to Congress before a waiver); and preserves existing Attorney General duties under prior related law.
The bill increases targeted transparency, enforcement tools, and victim protections around Epstein-related matters but does so in ways that raise privacy risks, economic and compliance costs, and concentrated executive discretion over sanctions and exemptions.
general_public and Congress: receive clearer, targeted transparency and oversight — the bill requires an unclassified public report identifying Epstein-related foreign participants, defines the scope of covered records, creates committee reporting channels, and preserves pathways for classified briefings when needed.
survivors_of_sex_trafficking and victims: the public report and record-handling rules must protect victims' safety and privacy and the bill preserves existing access rights for victims and journalists.
general_public and U.S. national security interests: the bill creates strong enforcement tools (asset freeze/seizure, visa/entry bans, criminal and civil penalties) that prevent named foreign actors from using U.S. financial and travel systems and deter further misconduct.
individuals_named_in_records (including victims and third parties): broad definitions of 'Epstein-related records' and requirements to identify foreign participants risk privacy and reputational harms if names or details are published or disputed.
general_public and broader Congress: narrowing oversight to specified committees and allowing classification of portions of findings limits broader congressional and public scrutiny of the law's implementation and underlying evidence.
U.S. businesses, workers, families, and third parties: sanctions, asset freezes, visa revocations, and related penalties can cause economic disruption, lost access to assets, interrupted business relationships, and collateral harms to innocent associates.
Introduced March 5, 2026 by Debbie Wasserman Schultz · Last progress March 5, 2026